Peggy Bechko’s World: Ideas – Cultivating the Twists and Turns

by Peggy Bechko

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Our favorite chaos symbol by Obonic

Ideas.

We all need ‘em, right? Writers are always open to and searching for ideas.

And they pop up everywhere – or at times, nowhere (the bane of a writer’s existence) read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – Sept. 26. 2016

In case you’ve missed what’s happening at TVWriter™, the most popular blog posts during the week ending yesterday were:

Looking for TV Pilot Scripts? read article

Cassandra Hennessey: Why I Stopped Watching Fear The Walking Dead

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Sinking ship?

by Cassandra Hennessey

Oh, it pains me to write this, it really does; but I have not watched Fear the Walking Dead since its return in August.

Yes! Me; The Champion of the show since Season One, Episode One! Me; The one who was giving people grief on Twitter to have patience and let the show develop before judging it as “boring” or “not having enough walkers to make it interesting”! To be honest, I haven’t had the interest or the unction to continue as an avid audience member.

I know, it’s shocking to me, too. read article

Posts TVWriter™ Wishes We’d Published

This week’s collection of recent articles from other websites about TV, TV writing, etc., etc., etc., including a couple about writing for television in places we in the U.S. don’t normally think about.

The plan here is for you to click on their headlines and visit the sites and read the posts in full…and is anybody asks, tell ’em TVWriter™ sentcha, okay?

Taking poetic license with AI personalities
by Elizabeth Dwoskin

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John Ostrander: Writing Rules

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by John Ostrander

Recently on Facebook, a father asked me what advice I could give his 13-year old daughter who wanted to be a writer. I had to be succinct but I think my reply was moderately useful and I thought I’d repeat it here.

As I’ve done columns about writing before, some of this may be familiar but this time it will be the short form. read article